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Most pepper cards, fewest chili cards

For this trick-tacking card game you use 12 spice cards each in four colors featuring a corresponding colored backside, as well as 12 number cards and four color cads to determine super trump and sequence of trumps colors.

The spice cards are shuffled and dealt to players each round, remaining card are laid out, sorted by color, staggered and face-down, representing a spice cupboard. Four color cards are laid out and you randomly place one of the 12 well-shuffled number cards face-down below each color card. Then you reveal the number cards and sort the display, which might result, for instance, in a trump sequence of Yellow 1 - Red 2 - Black 9 - Green 10. Green 10 would trump everything but Black 9, Red 2 and Yellow 1, and so on. Those four cards are super trumps and the most valuable cards in the game. At the start of each round you use two of your four spice tiles to bet of which colors you will have the most and the fewest cards at the end of the round. Due to the colored backs of cards you know the colors that players hold. In the trick-taking game you must follow color, also for super trumps. If you take a trick you take all cards in the trick plus - face-down and without looking at it - one card from the spice cupboard. When all cards have been played you score for correct predictions: 5 points for a correct bet, 3 points in case of a tie and - when both predictions are correct - the difference between card numbers in both colors. When each player has been starting player once, you win with the highest total.

Inventive and new, with rarely used mechanisms like colored backsides and super trump as well as prediction of color-related card numbers instead of tricks - a nicely spiced tidbit for fans of trick-tacking games.

Players: 3-4

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Arve D. Fühler

Artist: Victor Boden

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Zoch Verlag 2014

Web: www.zoch-verlag.com

Genre: Trick-taking

Users: With friends, result prediction

Version: multi

Rules: de en fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

Rare element of colored card back-sides

In combination with Super Trump many possibilities for tactics and strategies

Only for families if they have gaming experience

Lots of interaction, good “riling” game

Compares to:

All trick-taking games with results prediction

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0